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November 10, 1999
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Vol. 110 • No. 59
About 80 percent of Americans consume more than 200 milligrams of caffeine each day. However, the consequences of consuming too much are not pleasant.
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The Kansas women's basketball team won its exhibition opener, 80 - 67, against Club Gija of Lithuania last night in Allen Fieldhouse.
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Stress
Body's natural responses to pressure can hurt health but lifestyle changes help
Story by Melinda Weaver Illustration by Kyle Ramsey
Two papers to write, a midterm to take and a project to finish all in the same week.
The dread when an intramural basketball game or a job eat up even more time.
Brim Carrison, Beatrice, Neb., senior, knows the feeling. Her sophomore year she decided to try balancing 16 hours of classes with Student Senate, several Greek groups and sorority formals and fund-raisers.
Carlson soon discovered the lesson thousands of college students learn every semester: Too much stress can make you sick.
Stress is a disease that can cause illnesses as simple as a cold or as painful as an ulcer, can add extra pounds or can trigger migraines. But if students learn to deal with the problem at a young age, they can prevent severe problems later in life, local health specialists say.
Carlson learned the hard way.
"I was on campus all day for classes, and then I would go to meetings all evening," she said. "I wouldn't get home to study until about 11, and then I was studying until 3 or 4 in the morning. That was one of the stupidest things I have ever done. It was all a way too much for me."
Carlson came down with stress-related mononucleosis that knocked her college life for a loop. She could attend classes, but she fell behind in her work and had to drop most of her activities.
Mono, which results in overwhelming fatigue, swollen glands and other flu-like symptoms, is one of the more debilitating
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Fireworks may fly for New Year's Eve if city approves plan
By Derek Prater
writer @kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Commission is considering adding some bang to the upcoming Year 2000 celebration.
At tonight's commission meeting, commissioners will discuss authorizing the sale of fireworks for up to five days prior to Jan. 1.
Keith Dabney, director of building and codes for Douglas County, said the momentous nature of this New Year's Eve probably would persuade commissioners to approve the sale of fireworks.
"You're talking about a once in a lifetime situation here, and I don't see how you could say no." he said.
Audrey McKanna, Overland Park junior, said she thought fireworks should be available for New Year's Eve.
"I think it would be wonderful," she said. "I love pyrotechnics."
County officials decided to consider fireworks sales for New Year's Eve after the state Senate passed a bill that gave individual counties the power to authorize such sales, Dabney said.
Gary Bartz, owner of Don's Steakhouse, 2176 E. 23rd St., and Bartz Brothers Fireworks, said surrounding counties, such as Jefferson and Franklin counties, already had authorized the sale of fireworks for the New Year's celebration.
Bartz said that he had received many inquiries about
"You're talking about a once in a lifetime situation here, and I don't see how you could say no."
Keith Dabney
director for building and codes for Douglas County
whether he would be selling fireworks for New Year's, but wasn't sure just how big the demand would be.
"We don't know what to do as far as ordering is concerned," he said. "It's going to be real limited as to what's available."
Bartz said he wouldn't stock as many types of fireworks as he does for the Fourth of July because the cold probably would keep people indoors.
Jocelyn Pearson, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said shooting off fireworks on New Year's Eve was a tradition in her family.
"They sell them in Missouri every year, and I always shoot off Black Cats in my backyard," she said.
Dabney said if the commissioners decided they wanted to authorize fireworks sales, they would direct county staff to draft an ordinance for the commission to vote on at a later meeting.
The specifics of when and how sales would be allowed and when fireworks could be lit remain to be determined.
Edited by Julia Nicholson
Committee to redefine rights to intellectual work
By Nathan Willis
Kansan staff writer
The coming of the Internet age has forced the University of Kansas to rethink how it defines ownership of information produced by its professors and students.
Intellectual property was a term that used to apply primarily to researchers who obtained patents, said Provost David Shulenburger.
But no more. With the advent of the World Wide Web, suddenly almost anybody at the University — students included — is capable of producing intellectual property and publishing it on the Web, said Robert Vodicka, a San Diego graduate student on the committee that is studying recommendations for a new University intellectual property policy.
"Students are creating intellectual property all the time," Vodicka said. "If they write a paper, that's intellectual property. Now the central question is, who has control over it?"
Because it must be similar to the Regents' policy, the University's new policy probably will consider intellectual property the domain of the person who created it unless a contract is signed beforehand specifically stating that the intellectual property will be the property of the University, Shulenburger said.
For now, it's the individual who created it, not the University in most cases. Shulenburger said. The University currently is operating under an interim policy from the Board of Regents until it can get its new policy hammered out, he said.
That means that in most cases, the University can't use intellectual
"Students are creating intellectual property all the time. If they write a paper,that's intellectual property. Now the central question is,who has control over it?"
Robert Vodicka San Diego graduate student
property for its own purposes unless it gets permission from the creator.
New to this policy will be clauses regarding students, Shulenburger said. Never before has there been a formal written policy spelling out the rights students have to the intellectual policy they produce, Shulenburger said, although students generally were considered to have the rights to the property they produced.
Beyond those basic components of the policy, however, many details still have to be worked out, said Ed Meyen, professor of special education and chairman of the intellectual property policy committee. It's a long, time-consuming process of sending drafts to the Senate Executive Committee, which is in charge of the committee, taking suggestions and making revisions, he said.
"This is an important process, and we're taking advantage of the time that we have," Meyen said. "It's a very evolutionary process."
Jim Carothers, SenEx chairman, said SenEx hoped to have a policy ready for approval by the end of the academic year.
— Edited by Jamie Knodel
Two students injured in collisions near campus
Four University of Kansas students were involved in two separate collisions yesterday near campus.
A KU student remained in fair condition last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was taken shortly after he was hit by a car while riding a motorcycle.
Charles Fenech, Neodesha sophomore, was traveling west on 15th Street on a 1987 Yamaha motorcycle when Samuel Urbanek, Emmett freshman, pulled out in front of him in a 1989 Chevy Celebrity. The accident occurred at 1:30 p.m. at the intersection of 15th Street and Engel Road, the Lawrence Police Department said.
Urbanek, who was stopped at the stop sign located at the intersection, told police that he did not see Fenech when he began to pull on to 15th Street.
Fenech struck the back of Urbanek's car and was thrown from his motorcycle, police said.
Last year, Student Senate targeted this intersection to make it safer for students and drivers to cross. While there were discussions of a possible four-way stop, earlier this year, a 20 mph sim was added.
A separate accident involving two more KU students also occurred yesterday near the KU campus.
At about 4 p.m., Qinghong Cai, Lawrence graduate student, was hit by a car while attempting to cross the street at the intersection of Naismith Drive and Sunnyside Avenue. The car was driven by Derek Nicholson. Topeka freshman.
Cai was treated for minor injuries and refused to be transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for further treatment. Nicholson was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk and then released.
This is the first incident reported this semester in which a student has been hit by a car while near campus.
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Paramedics assist Qinghong Cai, Lawrence graduate student, after she was hit by a car while crossing the intersection of Naismith Drive and Sunnyside Avenue yesterday. Photo by Jay Sheperd/KANSAN
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